The Roskosmos geoportal is open

Today, December 21, 2010, at the time of the winter solstice, the Roscosmos geoportal was opened. The discovery was planned earlier, but was delayed by the fall of three GLONASS satellites into the Pacific Ocean.
Below, under the cut - the first impressions from the opening ceremony, and photos.

Geoportal is already available: geoportal.ntsomz.ru

It is a two-dimensional cartographic aggregator of remote sensing data (RSD), vector information. Declared functionality to create data by the users themselves, but so far failed to test. The portal was opened by Yury Urlichich (RKS OJSC), General Designer of GLONASS.

The main component - raster coating - includes images from the following devices:
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1. Meteor-3M. Conventional colors, resolution 60 m / pix. The satellite is good, equipped with a SAR-radar, and if the antenna of the latter had opened, the prices would not have been there, they said on the sidelines.
2. Resource-DK. Panchromatic images with a resolution of about 2m. The only Russian
Ultrahigh-resolution spacecraft with data transmission over the radio channel, and not with the help of photographic film. Pictures are present in commodity quantities.
3. Monitor-E. rarity and curiosity.
4. Terra (USA), Alos (Japan), Spot (France), QuickBird (USA) - are present in single copies, rather as demonstrators.
4. LandSat (USA) - basic coverage.

The functionality and interface of the portal make a pleasant impression, evaluate the boot characteristics, responsiveness, etc. failed yet. Software - developed at NIITP, possibly using OpenSource.
The absolute accuracy of image binding is 60 m.
Geoportal will be [partially] paid. Images of low resolution will be posted daily for mere mortals, images of high resolution (probably, it was only about live shooting) will be open only to paid service subscribers. Alas.

Opening ceremony of the geoportal. Speaker Yuri Urlichich


Flight planning room for spacecraft. In the foreground is the stand for testing the flight missions of the advanced Russian remote sensing satellite (Earth remote sensing) Kanopus-B produced by VNIIEM. Satellite "Kanopus-B" is created using the UK.


Flight Planning Center Screens

UPD. At the request of TarzanASG , I add that OpenStreetMap - OSM is also declared in the list of vector layers on the Roscosmos geo-portal, this layer is in the resource directory. It seems to be open, although I did not succeed.
UPD1 Dropbox, on which the images for the article were posted since yesterday, could not stand it - a notification came about restricting access due to abnormal traffic. If I can put on habrastorage - I will shift it. While it also does not open.